Orr v. Brown
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, Pike Superior Court — application for injunction before Judge Floyd, at Chambers, 1848. This was a Bill in Equity, for relief and injunction, presented to his Honor, Judge Floyd, at Chambers, for his sanction, and which he refused, on the ground that the case made by the bill did not entitle the complainant to the injunction prayed, to which the complainant excepted.
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In Equity, Pike Superior Court — application for injunction before Judge Floyd, at Chambers, 1848. This was a Bill in Equity, for relief and injunction, presented to his Honor, Judge Floyd, at Chambers, for his sanction, and which he refused, on the ground that the case made by the bill did not entitle the complainant to the injunction prayed, to which the complainant excepted. The material allegations of the bill are as follows: That the complainant was in possession of certain premises in the county of Pike, for which an action of ejectment was instituted, which was compromised, and a…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Warner, J.
delivering the opinion.
The object of the complainant’s bill is, to enjoin the sheriff of Pike county, from making a title to the premises purchased by Brown, one of the defendants, at a sheriff’s sale, and to set the same aside; and if that cannot be done, then the complainant prays, that the terms of the contract consummated, as be alleges, by the first sheriff’s sale to Prothro, may be specifically performed. Prothro, as the record shews, bid off the land for the s.um of $1200 00, at the first sheriff’s sale, but refused to comply with the terms of the sale, and the…
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